Foley warns against surge in beef imports
House Agriculture Committee Chairman Rep. Tom Foley says drastic beef imports would not help and could destabilize the industry. He told directors of the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association that a worldwide beef shortage exists and urged the Carter administration to consider this in discussions about increasing imports.
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Houston
House Agriculture Committee
Tom Foley
D-Wash
Foley
Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association
Carter
Testimony and diplomatic moves span North America and Asia
James V. Smith testifies in an 11.5 million plutonium contamination trial with plant workers exposed to radioactive areas. Chinese Petroleum delegation tours Houston area facilities before heading to New Orleans, coordinated by the National Council for United States China trade.
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Okashoma City
James V. Smith
John Gorman
Edward Martell
Houston
China
Houston Area
China’s
Petroleum Corp
New Orleans
U.S
National Council For United States-China Trade
Carter Says Peace Mission Falls Short in Israeli Talks
President Carter told the Israeli parliament that his Mideast peace mission has fallen short of a full Egyptian Israeli treaty. After an all night cabinet meeting in Jerusalem he urged greater flexibility to secure a framework.
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Knesset
Menachem Begin
U.S
Cyrus Vance
Israal
United States
Begin
Vance
Cairo
Anwar Sadat
Sadat
Two
Water deliveries lag as oil sector leads drop in February
A regional water district reports February deliveries at 1 052 271 636 gallons, down 7.68 percent from a year earlier, with oil company volumes driving most losses. For January–February, total deliveries fell 10.87 percent to 2 162 377 927 gallons due to a cold January, while municipal deliveries stayed about 1.5 million gallons below last year.
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Colorado River
Oil
Odessa
Big Spring
Snyder
Stanton
Board Set to name new member for Scurry County junior college
The Scurry County Junior College District Board of Trustees will consider appointing a new member tonight to fill a vacancy since Bentley Baize's death last Sept. 4. The meeting starts at 5:45 p.m. in the Western Texas College administration building. The agenda includes a traffic and parking policy revision for the WTC campus and an executive session to discuss personnel matters. A report on the current Austin legislative session is also on the schedule.
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Scurry County Junior College District Board of Trustees
Bentley Baize
Western Texas College Administration
WTC
Austin
Farmworkers to Visit Legislators Over Bargaining Bill
Members and supporters of the Texas Farmworkers Union planned to start visiting legislators to push a bill that would allow collective bargaining with employers. The group argues the measure would help farmworkers secure fair wages and working conditions as they meet with lawmakers in Austin.
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Austin
Texas Farmworkers Union
Weather and peace talks mix in early spring report
A weather synopsis for West Texas notes fair to partly cloudy skies with warmer temperatures across regions and a 65 to 88 degree high range. Separate items report grand jury actions in Snyder with burglary cases involving Wortham and Carrisaluz and aggravated assault charges against Medrano following a Latin American Center incident.
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Snyder
Upper 20S
Byron Keith Wortham
Wortham
McDonald Welding Supply
Henry Carrisalez
20Th St
Ray Derrick
Henry Medrano
Gilbert Gonzales
Charles
Grand Jury
Loomis Lane Allen
Willie Winston Menges
Benito Rodriguez Jr
Pablo Zapata Martinez
Israel Tavarez
Ronald Risk
Robert Vera
Catarina Guerrero
Robert Waller
John Burns
Memory typewriter cost eyed by NE county court
The commissioners court expects bids to determine the price of a memory typewriter, with estimates around $5,000. District Attorney Pete Greene said the device is needed to streamline district attorney offices by producing repetitive grand jury report forms and other routine documents.
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Commissioners Court
Pete Greene
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